Professional+Development


 * Professional Development **

One useful tool for professional development, is through the ASCD website for online professional development opportunities which can be found at []. This website holds plentiful information about education and the latest trends in research and news, but the particular workshops offered online, as well as in person, are relevant to the development of professional enhancement.
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One resource for professional development is [|www.learner.org]. This has many free professional development documents and courses that you can take for free. You can go online and search for a topic, and it will list the things that may interest you. It is interactive, colorful, and explains various topics very well. Another resource is PBS TeacherLine. PBS TeacherLine's high quality, standards-based graduate-level courses offer teachers the professional development opportunities they need in an accessible online format that makes learning fun, flexible and collaborative. You can earn graduate credit, PDPs, or CEUs while gaining strategies and resources to bring directly to your classroom. You can explore the ways that PBS TeacherLine can help your district improve instruction and student outcomes. They offer opportunities to increase the potency of your instructional coaching program and to enhance your existing professional development offerings with private or licensed courses. (pbs.org/teacherline/) One strategy that may be useful is designing or allowing people to do the professional development online. It would be a great asset if the teacher's were allowed to pick their own topic that they needed to work on. If an administration needs confirmation that these tasks are being completed, they could come up with some system, such as printing off a confirmation page to make sure the PD is getting completed. But, using this technology of online PD, the teacher's could work on their own time, at their own pace, on topics they need. It is a more differentiated approach than the traditional method of sitting in a lecture, where every grade teacher learns about the same topic.
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